vanquisher
Example Sentences
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The Shanghai Masters champion continued his sensational run of form by ousting Carlos Alcaraz's British vanquisher Cameron Norrie in straight sets in the opening match on centre court.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
For instance: Anyone who’s seen “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” knows it’s not the viridian vanquisher whose wrath Gawain should fear, but the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog!
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
The most urgent painting here is one of the Met’s very first purchases: Anthony van Dyck’s “Saint Rosalia,” vanquisher of a 17th-century epidemic, whom I’ve adopted as my Covid protectress.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
In his day, Winfield Scott was praised by no less an authority than the Duke of Wellington, vanquisher of Napoleon at Waterloo, as “the greatest living soldier.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2020
They both showed themselves active and dexterous; but reciprocal courtesy forbade that either should be regarded as the vanquisher.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
